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ninety six to. start september first. this is due to every news line from berlin or worst case scenario the u.k. government tries to reassure citizens and businesses in the event britain crashes out of the european union without a deal by publishing practical guidelines should talks break down with brussels also coming up round to us his china with a second round of terrorist beijing responds in kind with
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a trade war escalating who stands to lose the most we bring you a special report from one u.s. region bracing for a tough times ahead and we talked to the captain of the german aid ship who is on trial in miles off after landing two hundred thirty rescued migrants there. are. so much for your company everyone keep calm and carry on that seems to be the message from the u.k. government which has published guidelines for people and businesses on how to cope if britain crashes out of the european union without a deal the document is meant to signal the u.k.'s readiness in case of a new brigs a deal britain's regs that minister dominic rob says he is still confident of reaching a an agreement with the e.u. but that the advise published today explains what will happen if no deal is reached
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britain's withdrawal from the block is due to take place in march next year. the u.k.'s breaks it's a minister dominic robb set out the u.k.'s plans in the event of a no deal break said let's take a listen to some of what he had to say. we stepping up the pace and the intensity on the go stations and i'm confident that a good deal is within all sides that remains our top priority it remains overriding priority and at the same time naturally we've got to consider the alternative possibility that the e.u. doesn't match our ambition and pragmatism but we do know reach a deal let me be clear about this it is not what we want and it's not what we expect all right let's get the perspective from the european union h.q. standing by in brussels is our correspondent barbara they so good day barbara what
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do you policymakers make of this document do they believe the u.k. is ready for a no breaks it deal. the e.u. itself has already early in the summer a sort of talk to its member states and said ok folks things are not going so well you need to get ready for a no grex a deal so you need to take preparations that of course means there will be no more friction illustrate across the e.u. british border which is mostly concerning the harbor. in france for instance and the big harbor in the netherlands and rotterdam for instance and you just need to prepare yourself the business need to change the how the deal was their exports for instance and everybody sort of needs to prepare for the worst case so that is the one aspect and more innocent brussels they wonder that britain was so preternaturally cow and that nothing was to be heard and then all of a sudden it seems there's a certain panic over the some of the developed that things in fact might end badly
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and now these papers are coming out and of course if you look at the british press there is a certain amount of panic and brussels they just look on and said all right they need to compromise if they will still want a deal and so far we don't see anything now both sides seems to be taking in the perspective to hope for the best prepare for the worst we heard you can break that secretary there early you're a democrat expressing optimism that a deal will still be reached between the u.k. and the e.u. from brussels perspective where you are do you think that optimism is well founded . in brussels the position is that they can't really move much more than they have already moved there is still the willingness to do the deal was britain but certain things that treason may once cannot be done a customs union for instance that's not really a customs union particularly deal for good stead cross borders on and not
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controlled and so on and so forth there's a whole range of things that reason may can't move on and that brussels says she needs to move on and so they totally at caltech purposes and no side can really sort of let go of their principles and what happens in a case like that and this is what really dominic rop was talking about things go badly in the end everybody sort of slams the doors and then we'll see and then emergency contingency plans of course come into play and we've seen this first set of today and barbara u.k. abridgement secretary of dominic robert sure britons that they would continue to enjoy their bacon lettuce and tomato sandwiches no matter what what brussel stand in the way of a british b.l.t. sandwich in the event of a new deal it might indeed it might indeed because what will happen is that there might be some rather wilted lettuce and tomatoes in the scent but after they've been sitting in a spanish truck and call a in the hopper for three days so britain might as well have to sort of return to
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homegrown delights and probably probably consider something like a corned beef and cabbage sandwich are you know their creativity to be let loose at this point but it's an indication of what really is at stake here and of course seriously british business is quite blurry it. barbara starr reporting from brussels thank you. all right let's bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. protesters have marched in downtown nairobi kenya to demand the release of an opposition lawmaker in neighboring uganda protesters put out the call to see bobby wine a pop star turned lawmaker who opposes the long time ugandan president one was charged with treason and a civilian court on thursday. house there were a hundred children who crossed into bangladesh without parents were orphaned by
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violence in myanmar it was previously thought that they had simply been separated from their parents and new finding by the aid group save the children comes one year after me and maher began forcibly expelling seven hundred thousand range of muslims. a man with psychic psychiatric problems has fatally stabbed his mother and sister in a paris suburb and seriously injured a third person french officials say the thirty six year old man was shot dead by police after the attack islamic states wishfully claimed responsibility but provided no evidence of a link to the nice man. the u.s. has slapped a twenty five percent tariff on sixteen billion dollars worth of imports from china a second round of duties in response to what the trumpet ministration calls beijing's unfair trade practices on china reacted swiftly with this own levies on over three hundred american products that could spell tough times for american
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regions that explored billions worth and products to china one of them is the city of wichita the brookings institution says no other metro area in the u.s. is being impacted more by the u.s. china trade routes you know he's always on a phenomena visit which is tom and filed this report. from handrails an ally for the invasion industry. and his driver own two sister companies in wichita that over a wide range of an aluminum front however since have been strong decisions it's becoming more and more difficult for the brothers to calculate their contract big impact for us we're dealing in about six months we're now about if. we didn't affect our market but we have to be very careful in how we get projects to get a project let's say in january and then goes up thirty percent by march in your bid
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is not very good anymore and i'm going to hurt a lot harder tear of taxes on imports and exports says karen page c.e.o. and president of kansas global the hard core twenty five years he's been working to help local companies to improve their position in global markets now she has to deal with more and more businesses suffering from crimes trade policies it we're hearing from companies that they may have to lay off people they can only absorb you know the head on their profit margins for so long and then they'll not be competitive competitive they can't sell think can't sell they have to lay off. according to a recent analysis which. should tell with that spoke aerospace manufacturing and agriculture as more exposed to chinese terrorists than any other us metro area but it's not easy to find business people ready to talk about that some of them made off camera that they don't want to be seen to contradict president in this deeply
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conservative state for now many manufacturers here say they're holding their own but with one in four dollars in which the us economy coming from exports to tariffs are expected to have a huge impact an estimated twenty thousand jobs are at stake and at the moment it's the farmers who are paying the biggest toll one of them is keith miller at third generation farmer he's been in the red for the last two years now he's afraid of losing china as the mob could run despite the fact that he saw it beings are doing just fine. current prices that we are receiving are and you are from a dollar to two dollars less than there was three months ago and it's cause enough for her real concern whether we're going to be able to get those prices back in the near future and we're we're definitely worried about the worth of the income is going to come to the fore nevertheless keith miller still
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supports. his the first president fighting for you ask interests he says the farmer hopes that trump can strike a deal with china and most of all miller hopes that this will happen soon. and also the trial resumed today of the captain of a german aid ship detained after rescuing migrants in the mediterranean but the hearing lasted just a few minutes before being delayed once again for procedural reasons and late june the crew of the lifeline spent six days at sea with over two hundred thirty refugees on board it leaves new government closed its force through the ship eventually allowed the lifeline to dock but only after several countries agreed to take in a share of the refugees maltese authorities then impounded the ship and charged its captain klaus pitts a harsh with failing to properly register the vessel while irish insists he's done nothing wrong and says he hopes the trial will not drag on much longer we met up
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with him at his home in southern germany klaus peter highish had a comfortable life and bavaria he has a nice house and runs a successful small business but did not want to be complacent so he became a captain aboard a search and rescue ship in the mediterranean and that is now why he is facing legal proceedings in malta. of course this is an unpleasant situation but i go to court with my head held high i have to say we didn't do anything wrong on the contrary we saved people's lives and i gladly take responsibility for this. at the end of june and his crew aboard the ship lifeline rescued more than two hundred thirty refugees after that their own odyssey began the lifeline was not allowed to dock anywhere and instead had to sail aimlessly for days it ended up in malta where the ship was impounded it was taken in for questioning by police the
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accusation the vessels papers were not in order to. it's very strange that we're not talking about saving people's lives right now but instead about the boats registration which is supposedly not valid this would mean we could not sail under the dutch flag even though it very clearly states this on the certificate flag dutch home port amsterdam. at home in bavaria klaus peter uses his time between court appearances to keep in touch with his network of supporters. a lawyer you akim fella is providing legal advice. feller cannot comprehend that rescuers are being treated like criminals. this stuff that as a lawyer i thought well this case is very unusual a person was rescued people at sea has been detained. for a very dubious reasons in my view smith's. body shining.
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lives in an affluent town in one of germany's wealthiest regions the refugee dramas of the mediterranean seem far away although klaus gets a lot of sympathy here for his work he sometimes has difficult conversations. here now is this is what i experienced at an ice cream parlor a man made me ask him if he favored letting people drowned and then he said yes if he were the captain he would simply run over people in the city. you can't reason with someone like that at the thought of i thought of god. before his next court appearance. is working on a mini bus that was donated for his team and the activists are now collecting donations for a new ship they do not want to wait until authorities release the lifeline together
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with captain and they want to head back to sea as soon as possible in order to save more people from drowning. and that brings us to the end of this edition of your news thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us on behalf of the entire team here in berlin the news continues at the top of the hour saving. her first day at school. her first climbing lesson. or as grand the moment arrives. joining your regular jane on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary a little story an orangutan returns home monkey w. don't come to tang's. lamey.

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